Feather-drying machine.



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FEATHER DRYING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 22'. 1907.

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ATTORNEYS No. 872,917. PATENTED DEC. s, 1907.

1B. EISEMANN. FEATHER DRYING MACHINE.

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EMlL EIb'l'lMdXN. Ol. NEW YORK, N. Y.

FEATHER-DRYIN G MAGHIN E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

finalisation filed August 22- 190'7. Serial No. 389,669.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Emil Eissnlixx, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New invented new and useful Improvements in Feather-Drying Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention a ertains to drying machines more especialfy designed for the drying. of ostrich and other ornamental feathers pre aratory to placing them on the market. 'I he invention has in view the provim'on of a machine which will speedil dry feathers after they have been washed? and at the same time remove any surplus starch or other like material with which they might be coated. This object is accomplished by my invention without injury to the feathers, one embodiment of the machine being here inafter disclosed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an end elevation of my improved feather drying machine complete; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a face View of one of the slats removed from the revoluble drum, illustrating the mar *161 in which the feathers are connected therewith; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a snap hook, a number of which are connected to each slat.

The invention embodies in its construction suitable side frames 5 which are rigidly connected together and carry alining bearings 6 supported at a convenient elevation,

in which is journaled a drum axis 7, the said axis being extended beyond one of the side. frames where it is provided with any desired form of driving mechanism, that shown consisting of a sprocket wheel 8 and a pulle v 9. To the-axis 7. betmwn the side frames 5;

are rigidly fixed drum heads ll) which are spaced apart and have rigidly fixed to their peripheries, by rivets or other suitable .means lon itudinall arranged slats 1] I h t i I these slats being spaced a slight distance apart, which admits of the free circulation of the air through the drum. To the outer face of caclrof the slats 11 are attached any mrmber of snap hooks 12 which scrvc thc purpose of holding the feathers after they have bccn strung on a cord or other suilablc device, as shown in Fig. 3.

York, have l l l l l l l l l l l l l l i l l To the side frames 5, at both sides ofthe drum, respectively arranged above and below a horizontal plane passing through the center of the drum, are blocks 13 having guide-grooves in their opposed faces, which slidably receive beating boards 14, the said boards being held in adjusted position at the required distance from the drum by setscrews .or other equivalent devices 15.

In the operation of the machine after the feathers have been strung to the snap hooks of each slat, or so many of the slats as de sired, and the boards 14 have been adjusted at such a distance from the drum as is suit able to the length of the feathers which are to be dried, the machine is set in motion. As the drum revolves in the direction of the arrow indicated in Fig. 1, the feathers are thrown-out from its periphery by the centrifugal force, and are alternately beat against the boards 14. This beating action not only forces out the also removes particles of surplus starch or other like material with which the feathers have been coated.

The drying of the feathers is not only hastened by the beating boards and by the current of air passed revolution of the drum, but also by the (91): trifugal force developed; this force causing the water to move to the tips of the feathers where it is speedily removed by the contact with the aforesaid boards.

The invention as shown and described. while being my preferred practical construction may nevertheless be extensively modified within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. in a drying machine. a drum composed of annular heads having slats longitudinally arra'mgcd of the drum and forming the periphcry thereof, snap hooks lined to the outer face of said slats,- beating boards substan -tially horizontallv arranged at the opposite sides of thc drum, respectively above and below the horizontal center thereof, and means for adjusting the boards to and from the drum' for the purpose described.

2. in a feather drying machine, a revoluble drum, means for. attaching the feathers to the periphery of the drum, and beating the opposite sides of the drum in the path of travel of the feathers.

3. In a feather drying nmchinc, a revolusurplus water, but

ble drum, means for attaching the feathers to the periphery of the drum, and beating boards located at the opposite sides of the drum, respectively above-and. below the cen- 5 ter thereof in the path of travel of the feathers.

4. In a feather drying machine, a revoluble-drum, means for attaching the feathers t0 the drum, and a beating board ad justable,

t0 and from the drum in the path of the 10 feathers.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. EMIL EISEMANN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM TAFT, GUSTAV LAEIIMANNU 

